In the past few decades, economists have been increasingly interested in studying happiness or subjective well-being measures, and policy makers have also started to use these measures to design and evaluate policies. F…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/happiness-and-economicsAmanda Eurich, professor of history at Western Washington University and author of "Polemic's Purpose," will discuss how the practice of polemic in the Protestant Reformation polarized public discourse and civic society…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/polemic-in-reformation-lessons-for-todayWritten, directed and produced by Marcos Colón, Beyond Fordlândia (2018, 75 min) presents an environmental account of Henry Ford’s Amazon experience decades after its failure. The story addressed by the film begins in 1…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/beyond-fordl%C3%A2ndia-environmental-account-of-henry-fords-adventure-in-amazonDavid Treuer is the author of "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee," a sweeping history and counter-narrative of Native American life from the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre to the present. Treuer grew up Ojibwe on a reservation…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/native-american-life-beyond-wounded-kneeA sense of urgency compelled Andrew Bradjan ’22 to join CMC’s sustainability effort shortly after arriving at CMC as a first-year student. “Climate change is an issue we need to tackle as soon as possible,” said Bradjan…
Candace Valenzuela ’06 began her political career when she ran for office in 2017 and was elected to the Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District board in Texas as an at-large representative, defeating an 1…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/representation-and-responsible-leadership-conversation-with-candace-valenzuela-06Calling all CMC Siblings! What was it like to attend the College with your brother or sister? We want to know: Did you hang out together? Share advice? Keep tabs on each other? Please send your story to pa@claremontmcke…
The U.S. has recently witnessed a growing number of violent acts and hate crimes perpetuated against Asian-American communities across the country. While racism and discrimination against Asian-Americans has tragically…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/anti-asian-bias-crimes-past-present-and-futureThe Simons Foundation has awarded CMC Prof. Helen Wong a 2021 Simons Fellowship in Mathematics, making her one of two liberal arts college faculty to receive the highly prestigious fellowship in nearly a decade, and thi…
Starting in 1895 with the Turkish destruction of more than one million Armenian men, women, and children, the twentieth century has been named the century of genocide. The Armenian memoirist, John Minassian (1895-1991),…
https://www.cmc.edu/athenaeum/surviving-forgotten-genocide-armenian-memoir-by-john-minassian